Jean-Baptiste LAVERGNE-MORAZZANI

Chef : La Table du 11 Recognized for his talent at the age of 24, the Versailles-based chef of La Table du 11 retains his three Gault&Millau toques and is expanding his empire to include La Flottille.

Presentation

Asthe son of restaurant owners, Jean-Baptiste Lavergne-Morazzani knows the business well and didn’t hesitate for long before deciding to pursue culinary training. “My parents ran La Maison des Bois in Plaisir, in the Paris region—an authentic thatched-roof inn that’s been in the family for nearly a century. My uncle runs it now; he’s the fourth generation.”

From Ferrandi to Paris’s Finest Restaurants

But Jean-Baptiste wanted to forge his own path, in the city, at a more modern establishment. He trained for four years at the Ferrandi school in Paris, earning his BEP and Bac Pro. “I learned the basics of the trade working for Gordon Ramsay at Le Trianon in Versailles. I spent four years with that amazing team.” After a stint working alongside Yannick Alléno at Le Meurice, he worked at Le Cobéa with Philippe Bélissent, where he learned about operations, management, and front-of-house—all essential skills, in his view, for striking out on his own.

La Table du 11 and a Versailles Empire in Flux

He made that leap in 2015 with the opening of La Table du 11 in Versailles. “I carried over this lucky number that’s always been with me,” says the chef, who for a long time used it across three locations: La Table, Le Bistrot, and La Cave du 11. Le Bistrot du 11, however, closed its doors in early 2026 for personal reasons; the chef chose to keep the space to develop it further, while focusing his restaurant operations on La Table du 11 and La Cave du 11. Since June 2024, he has also been creating the menu for La Flottille, the historic open-air café nestled along the Grand Canal in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, in partnership with the Bertrand Group.

Goal: 5 toques

With his instinctive, plant-forward cuisine, the 2016 Young Talent of the Year was awarded 2 toques right away, then 3 toques in 2019—a rating he has maintained in recent editions of the guide. Jean-Baptiste Lavergne-Morazzani wasn’t even 30 years old when Gault&Millau named him “Grand de Demain” for 2020. Ambitious as ever, he still sets no limits for himself: he’s aiming for 5 toques.